Amazon Rainforest Drying Trend from Climate Warming and Extreme Anomalies


Sassan S Saatchi1, Liang Xu1, Yan Yang2, Armineh Barkhordarian3, A. Anthony Bloom1, Alexandra G Konings4, Michael Keller5 and David Schimel6, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States